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How AI could create the first one-person unicorn

The technology is allowing entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses on their own.

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Technological revolutions have a habit of shaking up the way firms do business, says the writer.

Some hope that generative AI will make starting a business so cheap and hassle-free that anyone will be able to become an entrepreneur much as anyone can become a YouTuber.

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Ms Sarah Gwilliam is neither a software engineer nor, she confesses, does she “speak AI”. But after her father died recently she got the spark of an idea for creating a generative artificial intelligence (AI) start-up that would help others like her handle their grief and sort out their late loved ones’ affairs.

Call it wedding planning for funerals.

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